A close look at the first movement of the Dvorák cello concerto. An analysis of the most demanding excerpts

Sammanfattning: This thesis aims to identify and address the most technically demanding passages of the first movement of Dvorák's cello concerto. Within the second part, I shall focus on analyzing the performances of five famous cellists, examining their way of playing and the ideas that they present. In the last part, I discuss audio samples of myself, in which I have tried to incorporate the results of the previous sections in my own way of playing these excerpts. Finally, I summarize the conclusions that I have drawn from this process, in order to us them in future research.